Jason Thomas

My life has been all career:

*Really started at the Cleveland Plain Dealer where I became the special feature writer and later the fashion and society columnist. Bought a great house in Shaker Heights. Was very happy. Today I have a standing offer with a real estate agent to buy that house back. Silly but I have reached the age when I can be silly.

*Went to the Chicago Sun-Times where I was syndicated in 650 newspapers. I wrote about the rich and the powerful and traveled all over the world. At The same time, I started television shows with Oprah Winfrey and Roger Ebert. Decided that neither had any real future. First of my really big mistakes.

*Moved to New York and discovered Studio 54. Devoted life to doing my writing and television spots.

*On to Beverly Hills where I founded The Fashion International Report, House and Home magazine and Movin magazine. I was the fashion editor of AM Los Angeles with Regis Philbin. Did a little acting. Wrote Haute which became a movie.

*Bought a haunted plantation in North Carolina when I became vice-president of production and a series of movie studios in North Carolina. Was a business type who raised funding for a lot of films.

*Wrote more books including Mogollon (nobody ever read it); Champagne (which was recently bought for a movie) ; High Society; After Dark : Too Rich (made into three movies) and a few others. Made a pile of money.

*Oops. Publisher and business manager embezzzled most of the pile of money. Had to go to work again.

*Sold my pillared house(sorry Scarlet) and moved back to Beverly Hills. There I worked as a senior producer for a television company and started ghost writing books (now total eight) for the rich and the powerful. Made my money back.

*Today, I am producing small budget movies and have a waiting list for future books.

Recently, one of my very rich friends treated me to an over-priced physical at Duke Medical Center. Since his family had donated the funding for Duke University and the medical center, I got great care. The doctors were shocked to find that after years of heedless living, I was one of the healthiest people ever to waste $28,000 on a physical.

This will surprise most people who remember me at Canfield where I avoided classes with every fake illnbess I could create. That was because I hated school.

College was different. I majored in fraternity and learned that I had a natural ability to live the wild life.

And I did.

I finally started to grow-up at the age of 56 years when my son, Wesley (the product of a request for sperm some 18 years earlier) came into my life. He was the perfect kid. A really talented actor and all around good guy. I spoiled him. Even bought him his dream car . He was murdered defending it in a car-jacking.

Today I own several companies: One is a partnership with Washington powerhouse, Janet McElligott (where we produce international documentaries and I have been contracted by an African relative of President Obama to write a book entitled, Auntie) and Ava kaufman (a Beverly Hills tycooness who got a bad dose of Restalyn and went through the world's most successful heart transplant). We are just finishing a book called , Heartless, which will be made into a movie, probably staring Jennifer Aniston. I have a farm in Virginia where I am building a studio onto my cottage) and a chalet in the Pine Mountain Club outside of Los Angeles. Ava and I spend part of our time in a corporate condo in Beverly Hills where I am opening a new office after the first of the year.

Much of this is due to one of my billionaire friends (me ghost writer ...him rich friend) who told me if I could scrape together a rather large amount of money, he would allow me into one of his oil deals. Today I have a lot of stock and some cash in Canada companies and Canadian dollars. The investment returned 50 to one in eight months.

Suddenly my distant relatives care a lot about me.

I don't ride horses as much as I did. Still have a few horses who are thrilled about that. I have a bunch of dogs and collect art.